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The Age is sponsoring the Melbourne Writers Festival and reviving the
Age Book of the Year award, which was last presented in 2012.
The agreement with MWF, which is back with a physical festival after last year’s was forced to migrate online, has the newspaper committed to a major partnership deal and it will present its prestigious award on opening night, September 3.
Artistic director of Melbourne Writers Festival Michaela McGuire says the festival’s partnership with The Age makes complete sense.
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The Age editor Gay Alcorn said she had been dismayed when she joined the paper last year that it was no longer a partner with the festival. “I am thrilled that that has been rectified. The festival is about books and writing, ideas and debate in this city – exactly what
Reflexions: Reading in the present tense, Ingrid de Kok and Mark Heywood continue to invite established and younger writers and other creative artists to reflect on a text that moved them, intellectually engaged them, frightened them or made them laugh. Our reviewer today is Finuala Dowling who reviews Migration, New and Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin.
In 2020, everything I read or reread took on the tint of the pandemic. In Somerset Maugham’s
Rain, I saw the explosive impact of quarantine; in David Malouf’s
An Imaginary Life I paused to underline Ovid’s reverie about “the randomness with which the disease advanced, how it appeared in one house, striking down all but a single child… then leapt two houses to claim another victim”. I saw my own lockdown-induced remoteness reflected in the types of seclusion featured in Claire Keegan’s
What writers look for when they read a novel
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Ed., Belinda Castles
As
The Sydney Morning Heraldâs new literary editor in 1996, I dashed off a note to writer Debra Adelaide, asking her to review Kate Jenningsâ first novel,
Snake. Twenty-five years later, Iâm thrilled to see the ripples of enjoyment and influence set off by my choice of a perceptive reader.
Within days of learning that Jennings had died in New York this month, I read about Adelaideâs long relationship with
On writers’ festivals Art by Vivienne Guo.
The writer is a creature that comes in many forms.
The intensive writer can often be found hunched over a laptop, a cold mug of tea sitting beside them in a semi-forgotten state. The experiential writer embeds themselves in the action of society, carefully balancing a notepad on their knee and deftly typing notes into their mobile phone – all the while on a moving train. Not to be forgotten, the maniacal writer can most often be seen emerging from a sea of Red Bull cans in a frenzy, inveterately scribbling their ideas on oversized sticky-notes.